Monday, April 27, 2009

Woo hoo!

The first one is for a fundraiser on behalf of Woodlawn Plantation, part of George Washington's original Mount Vernon estate. Mary Ball is George's mom and 1789 was the year he was inaugurated. I put the pair of birds facing away from each other because apparently she and George had a contentious relationship... it seems she wasn't the easiest woman to get along with. It is on 32-count ivory jobelan with rose blush Waterlilies.

The second is for my friend Verna who turns 100 this week! 100 years!!! Can you imagine? It is on 28 count hand-dyed jobelan from Wichelt called "raspberry lite" stitched in Hydarangea by Needle Necessities (and also under that name now by Treadworx).

It's funny that you use Threadworx threads in your one picture because yesterday when I went to my LNS I was trying to find Threadworx Threads and at the time I didn't know it was called Needle Necessities before they changed it to Threadworx...now I know....thanks...